Re: No more adult coaches
 

Posted by Anthony S. at 04/14/2001 6:07 PM EST


Student on team #442, Knight Riders, from Lee High School and NASA/BOEING/MEVATEC.


In Reply to: No more adult coaches
Posted by julia walsh on 04/12/2001 8:02 AM EST:



Wow Julia, look what that one comment did.

My team would not have functioned at all without adults. I heard a lot of complaints from fellow team members about our adults "shooting down" thier ideas. Well the way I see it is, they are pro's. They know what they are talking about. They have Master degree's. And some of us don't even have high school diplomas yet! So stop complaining. I think if my team would let students run the whole thing, we wouldn't have had such an awesome robot. Yes, our adults did most of the designing and construction, but that was during thier work time(our school time). they even spent late nights. On our last night, they stayed until 4:00 A.M. putting our most valuable tool (our balancing tool) on the robot. Only two students stayed that night and one of them was the Engineer's son. So all in all, all teams need at least one adult. For designing, construction, and coaching. If we didn't have adults behind the glass, then other adults wouldn't have listened to us.

My $0.05
Anthony Steele II Team 442
Human Player